Jan Schermer

A Dutch-born artist living in the United States, he was born on February 21, 1974, in Alkmaar, Noord-Holland. His career centers on sound, exploring how listening shapes perception and memory. With a background spanning composition, field recording, and audiovisual installation, he develops projects that emphasize texture, space, and duration. His work often engages collaborative processes, inviting audiences to encounter sound as a lived experience rather than a finished product. Rooted in a thoughtful approach to time and environment, he seeks to reveal the subtle relationships between sound sources and their surroundings. Across projects, his practice remains attentive to silence, listening habits, and the daily phenomena that surround us.